The deal struck with Pakistan will cost the U.S. an extra $365 million annually (that is, $1 million every day). But the deal is still better for the Obama administration: supplying troops in Afghanistan for the past six months has cost six times as much money as when as before the supply routes were closed. Pentagon figures showed it took about $104 million per month to send the war supplies through a longer northern route.

Islamabad decided to deny the U.S. access to the supply routes in November after American warplanes accidentally hit a Pakistani military outpost, killing 24 soldiers. Many didn’t believe a deal would be struck, especially after the Pakistani Parliament’s April resolution demanding “an immediate cessation of drone attacks” and declaring Pakistani territory may not be used “for transportation of arms and ammunition to Afghanistan.”

Also part of the deal is that Pakistan has dropped its demand for the Obama administration to issue a formal apology for killing the 24 soldiers “by mistake,” and that the U.S. has offered Pakistan a formal invitation to a NATO conference in Chicago beginning this weekend.

Author: John Glaser

after all the buzzy that Pakistan made. For how much do they sell a nuke to someone?

dink

Man that is incredible amount of money for the death of 24 soldiers.

Jaime

Incredibly low you mean?

City Buddha

That is the way they do business there. Pakistanis don't consider "bribes" a big deal, actually the norm.

Johnny_Warbucks

One more thing they have in common with the US counterparts.

curmudgeonvt

An EXTRA $365M/year…what is the base cost for passage? What is the total (including the $365M) now? And there's probably no guarantee that the supplies moving thru Pakistani territory will successfully get where it is supposed to go. xin lỗi, Charlie! This is insanity. What are we getting in return for all the taxpayer's money they are spending? Lunacy – paying the people who are supporting the people we're fighting…WTF is wrong with this picture?

Nathan

So, it was all about money and not for the 24 Pakistani border post soldiers killed by the occupation forces.

B Jim

How incompetent do you have to be to 'accidentally' kill 24 Pakistani Soldiers.. especially when you were informed by the Pakistani authorities that the soldiers were there.. unless of course thats what you intended to do.

lolwut

Don't worry we'll just borrow it from china. go back to keeping up with the kardashians.

Johnny_Warbucks

There ya go. When in doubt, follow the money. And that'll be another 1 million per day that we supposedly don't have. Ben's printing presses will be running over time now for sure.

masmanz

That comes to about $2 per mile as toll tax. The question is why we still have so many troops there?

MvGuy

They sell their own CHILDREN to be blown to bits by drone to appease the great infidel…. What are a few supplies to people that sell their OWN children to be murdered by Americans and their lackey, NATO stooges…???? http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/7/us_drone_ki…